Hi SeeSat-L list (and others) --
A well known planetary amateur Paolo Lazzarotti of Italy has sent out an
e-mail referring to a pair of mysterious objects located near to M27. I am
forwarding his e-mail at below.
It has been calculated at 2.6" / minute speed.
Frank J. Mellilo, of ALPO suggests that it is a possible geostationery
satellite (two so close together???). After you see the animation, what do you think
it could be? Ted or anybody?
-- joe rao
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I want to submit to your attention this odd picture showing M27 with a couple
of misterious objects passing in its neighbourhood at slow speed.
For your better clearance I also made an animation you can download here:
http://www.paololazzarotti.com/M27anim.gif
The animation does show the most conspicuous object and another weaker one on
the top-left corner.
The main object is initially seen as "2 stars together with baffles" which
are going to melt each other after 80+ minutes were spent.
Both the image attached and the animation are dark corrected, so I can
exclude any hot pixel.
The largest pic is an original frame with no processing done.
I have no idea with that, hope to have some feedback from you.
Thank you in advance.
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TECH DATA:
Meade Mak-Cass. 178mm f/15 scope
Canon D300 Digital Rebel at primefocus, no filter
13x300 secs. frames stacked with a little pause among shots
Images taken on June 28th, 2005. The 1st shot was taken at 22:29 UT and the
last one at 23:51 UT
Images recorded on mt. Giogo, Massa, Italy - LNG: 10° 07' 43", LAT.: 44° 19'
50", ELEV.: 1500 meters
More datas can be provided if needed.
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Ad astra per semper.
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eng. Paolo R. Lazzarotti
http://www.astromeccanica.it
Italian High Quality Astro Instruments
http://www.paololazzarotti.com
Personal Photo Gallery
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